Perspectives from Cultural Studies in the Context of Technology and Environment

Speakers on the topic of "New Landscapes in Art and Technology":
Prof. Dr. Astrid Schwarz, Technoscience Studies at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, and Prof. Dr. Rachel Mader, Design & Art at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

Landscapes are read, painted, cultivated, and mapped; they are destroyed, transformed, or completely recreated. The two lectures will address the layers of meaning of landscape from the perspectives of technology and art studies. We are interested in which meanings are attributed to landscape in which context, as a work or product, how relations to things and materials become relevant in the process, and to what extent all this is highly relevant to the experience of loss and the appropriation of the future - for example in the new landscapes of Lusatia.

Thursday, July 6, 2023, 6:15-8 p.m.
City-Saal, Bahnhofstraße 14, Cottbus.

Interested parties are cordially invited to the final lecture.
Attendance is free of charge, registration is not required.
The hall has a maximum of 80 seats.

That the environment is to be protected from technology is as widespread an idea as the assertion of the indispensability of technical development to solve current and future environmental problems. Problems such as species extinction and climate change, ubiquitous plastic waste, and urban sprawl have been and continue to be generated by technical products and industrial modes of production. How can this comprehensive mechanization of society, landscape and its resources be better understood and shaped? Answers to these and other questions are sought by the public lecture series "TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT - (K)EIN WIDERSPRUCH?(!)".

Since April 2023, the lecture series has discussed positions that understand technology and the environment as interrelated categories. Current and historical constellations were presented, which also include cultural and artistic aspects. Examples include projects on renewable energies and coal-fired power generation, on post-mining landscapes and their uncertainties in material and knowledge stocks, or on design and ownership issues.